Car-coupling



G. W. GILES.

(No Model.)

GAR COUPLING.

- Patented I'eb.'8, 1887.

m 1 AW? WITNESSES INVENTOR ATTORNEYS.

UNITED STATES PATENT ()FFIc-E.

GEORGE W. GILES, OF BUFFALO, WEST VIRGINIA.

CAR-COUPLING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 357,477, dated February 8, 1887.

Application filed October 9, 1886.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE W. GILES, of

Buffalo, in the county of Putnam and State of West Virginia, have invented a new and use- 5 ful Improvementin Gar Couplingspfwhich the following is a specification.

My invention is an improved -car-coupling, and comprises, in connection with a suitable draw-head, a weight and pin joined by a flexible connection, the weight being adapted to. overbalance the pin, and the said weight being projected into the path of the draw-bar, so that the entering draw-bar will raise the weight, and thereby permit the pin to fall by its own [5 gravity into coupled position.

The invention consists in certain features of construction and novel combinations of parts, as will be hereinafter described and claimed.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of my coupling. Fig. 2 is a vertical longitudinal section, the draw-bar being also cut in section; and Fig. 3 is a top plan thereof.

. The draw-head A may have a flaring mouth at its forward end to receive the draw-head, and through its top wall I form an opening, B, for the coupling-pin, and a second opening in rear of openingB for the weight, presently described. The pin-opening has its walls extended to preserve the pin in vertical position when uncoupled, and this result is preferably attained by forming a tube, 1), around and projecting the same above the pin-opening, as shown.

On the draw-head, and at the opposite sides of same, I mount flanges D, which extend rearwardly to the opening and forward to a point in advance of the pinopening. As shown, these flanges project above the draw-head a distance about equal the length of the pin. The weight E is pivoted at 1, preferably between the flanges D, and it has a cam-like portion, e, which extends through the opening 0 and into the path of the draw-bar F, so that the draw-bar, when it enters the draw-head, will pass under and raise the weight. This draw-barF has openings ff for engagement by the pins of meeting couplings. The pin G is joined by a flexible connection, H, with the movable end of the weight, and the latter is 5e formed to overbalauce the pin, so that when Serial No. 215,801. (No model.)

the draw-bar is withdrawn the weight will fall and the pin be raised to uncoupled position.

I pass the connection H over a guide, I, which is preferably a shaft journaled in the side flanges,. and between said flanges, in rear of the pin-opening, I arrangea transverse partition, J, which extends upward to about the plane of the guide.

The operation is simple and will be readily understood. When the draw-bar is removed from a draw-head, the weight will fall and the pin be elevated. The entering draw-bar engages under and raises the weight, and the pin falls by its gravity into the opening of the draw-bar, the latter serving, while the parts are coupled, to support the weight and prevent the latter from falling, and so elevating the pin and uncoupling the cars. To uncouple, the pin may be raised. A convenient way of so doing in certain classes of cars is by the operator pressing with his foot on the connection between the guide and the weight; or it may be elevated by grasping and pulling back on the connection, or in other suitable manner.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new is- 1. The combination of the draw-head having a way for the draw-bar, the coupling-pin, a pivoted weight adapted to overbalance the pin and having a cam-like portion extended into the way or path of the draw-bar, a flexible connection joining said weight and coupling-pin, and an elevated guide for said connection adjacent to and above the coupling pin, all substantially as and for the purposes specified.

2. In a car-coupling, the combination, with the draw-head, the coupling-pim'the weight adapted to overbalance the pin, and the flexible connection, of a guide for the connection, such guide being journaled or pivoted, substantially as set forth. y

3. The combination, in a car-coupling, of the pin, the weight, a connection joining said pin and weight, a guide for said connection, and a wall or partition arranged in rear of the pin and extended upward to about the plane of the guide, substantially as set forth.

4. The improved car coupling herein described, consisting of the draw-head having ing 0, and the flexible connection joining the openings B and O, the flanges D, projected up pin and weight, substantially as set forth. from the opposite sides of the draw-head, the guide I, and partition J, extended between GEORGE GILES 5 said flanges, the pin, the weight pivoted to Witnesses:

the side flanges and having aportion arranged WVM. E. FIFE, to project into the draw-head through open- F. M. BOWLES. 

